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Lookout: Dark Caracal Points To APT Actors Moving To Mobile Targets
2018-03-08 16:59

Lookout researchers discussed Dark Caracal's implications for APT actors in the mobile space and why its now a juicy target.

Kaspersky Lab Says It Spotted APT Code, Quickly Deleted It
2017-10-25 12:48

Firm Confirms Its AV Software Detected Equation Group Source Code on Home PCAnti-virus vendor Kaspersky Lab says that an internal probe has confirmed that in 2014 a PC running its anti-virus...

DHS Alert on Dragonfly APT Contains IOCs, Rules Likely to Trigger False Positives
2017-10-23 14:52

A joint Technical Alert, TA17–293A, describing the activities of a Russian APT may contain signatures and rules likely to trigger false positives in some security systems.

DHS, FBI Warn of Ongoing APT Attack Against Critical Infrastructure
2017-10-23 13:58

The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation have issued a joint technical alert warning that government entities and organizations in the energy, nuclear, water,...

Adobe Patches Flash Zero Day Exploited by Black Oasis APT
2017-10-16 15:46

Adobe today released an out-of-band Flash Player update addressing a zero-day vulnerability being exploited by a little-known Middle Eastern APT group called Black Oasis.

Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade on APT Fourth-Party Collection
2017-10-04 15:00

Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade talk to Mike Mimoso live from Virus Bulletin in Madrid about APTs leveraging one anothers' attacks and compromised machines as their own.

DDoS Attacks More Likely to Hit Critical Infrastructure Than APTs: Europol
2017-09-27 18:07

While critical infrastructure has been targeted by sophisticated threat actors, attacks that rely on commonly available and easy-to-use tools are more likely to occur, said Europol in its 2017...

Turla APT Used WhiteBear Espionage Tools Against Defense Industry, Embassies (Threatpost)
2017-08-30 19:18

The Turla APT's WhiteBear toolset was used to attack defense organizations as recently as June, and diplomatic targets in Europe, Asia and South America during most of 2016.

Kaspersky Details APT Trends for Q2 2017 (Security Week)
2017-08-10 17:51

While continuing to deploy their usual set of hacking tools onto compromised systems, advanced persistent threat (APT) actors were observed using leveraging zero-day vulnerabilities and quickly...

Updates to Sofacy, Turla Highlight 2017 Q2 APT Activity (Threatpost)
2017-08-08 20:34

Attackers behind APT campaigns have kept busy in Q2 2017, adding new ways to bypass detection, crafting new payloads to drop, and identifying new zero days and backdoors to help them infect users...