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The Russian state-sponsored hacking collective known as APT29 has been attributed to a new phishing campaign that takes advantage of legitimate cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox to deliver malicious payloads on compromised systems. What's changed in the newer iterations is the use of cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive to conceal their actions and retrieve additional malware into target environments.
State-backed hackers part of Russia's Federation Foreign Intelligence Service have started using Google Drive legitimate cloud storage service to evade detection. "We have discovered that their two most recent campaigns leveraged Google Drive cloud storage services for the first time," Unit 42 analysts who spotted the new trend said.
Details have emerged about a new cyber espionage campaign directed against the aerospace and telecommunications industries, primarily in the Middle East, with the goal of stealing sensitive information about critical assets, organizations' infrastructure, and technology while remaining in the dark and successfully evading security solutions. "The ShellClient RAT has been under ongoing development since at least 2018, with several iterations that introduced new functionalities, while it evaded antivirus tools and managed to remain undetected and publicly unknown," researchers Tom Fakterman, Daniel Frank, Chen Erlich, and Assaf Dahan said in a technical deep dive published today.
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Chinese-speaking cyberespionage actors have targeted the Afghan government, using Dropbox for command-and-control communications and going so far as to impersonate the Office of the President to infiltrate the Afghan National Security Council, researchers have found. At the time, Kaspersky said that the IndigoZebra campaign was targeting former Soviet Republics with "a wide swath of malware including Meterpreter, Poison Ivy, xDown, and a previously unknown malware called 'xCaon'." According to Kaspersky's 2017 report, the campaign shared ties with other well-known Chinese-speaking actors, though no definitive attribution was made at the time.
Egnyte announced new integrations with Google Workspace and Dropbox to help companies secure and govern their sensitive cloud content. The integrations enable companies' Google and Dropbox users to apply Egnyte's platform to locate their valuable content in each cloud solution and control risks via a unified, turnkey approach.
You can protect your online files by placing them in a virtual vault secured by a PIN. Those of you who use Dropbox to store files online may be concerned about the security of your cloud-based content. For sensitive files that need an extra layer of protection, Dropbox now offers a vault.
If you already use Dropbox, then you may want to take the new Dropbox password manager for a spin. To import your saved passwords from another source, click the Try It button and select either your browser or another password manager.