Coverage of named threat actors and intrusion sets examines reported incidents, infrastructure, disruption, and defensive guidance.
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Coverage under this tag concerns a named threat actor or intrusion set: an individual, group, or organized operation assessed to be responsible for malicious cyber activity. Reports may describe incidents, malware, attack infrastructure, disruption efforts, or analyst assessments. Attribution is often provisional, so actor names and reported links should be treated as intelligence judgments rather than established identity, nationality, sponsorship, or motive.
For defenders, such reporting can help connect incidents and prioritize monitoring, but indicators and techniques may be reused or become obsolete. Validate reported infrastructure, hashes, and behaviors against local telemetry; use confirmed weaknesses to guide vulnerability remediation and access controls. If activity is suspected, preserve relevant logs and evidence, contain affected accounts or systems, and coordinate investigation without relying on an actor label alone.
A previously unknown Android malware has been linked to the Turla hacking group after discovering the app used infrastructure previously attributed to the threat actors. [...]
The vulnerabilities could allow threat actors to disrupt or access kernel activity and may be under active exploit.
Threat actor groups like Wizard Spider and Sandworm have been wreaking havoc over the past few years – developing and deploying cybercrime tools like Conti, Trickbot, and Ryuk ransomware. Most recently, Sandworm (suspected to be a Russian cyber-military unit) unleashed cyberattacks against Ukranian infrastructure targets
A Belarusian threat actor known as Ghostwriter (aka UNC1151) has been spotted leveraging the recently disclosed browser-in-the-browser (BitB) technique as part of their credential phishing campaigns exploiting the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict
IT and software consultancy firm Globant has confirmed that they were breached by the Lapsus$ data extortion group, where data consisting of administrator credentials and source code was leaked by the threat actors. [...]
The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says more and more threat actors are now using Russia's war in Ukraine to target Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine, in phishing and malware attacks. [...]
The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says more and more threat actors are now using Russia's war in Ukraine to target Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine, in phishing and malware attacks. [...]
A Ukrainian-based threat actor is spearphishing Russians who are using services that have been banned by the Kremlin.
Threat actors are exploiting the vulnerability to drop Web shells and cryptominers, security vendor says.
Online retail and photography manufacturing platform Shutterfly has disclosed a data breach that exposed employee information after threat actors stole data during a Conti ransomware attack. [...]
A threat actor of likely Pakistani origin has been attributed to yet another campaign designed to backdoor targets of interest with a Windows-based remote access trojan named CrimsonRAT since at least June 2021
An unidentified threat actor has been observed employing a "complex and powerful" malware loader with the ultimate objective of deploying cryptocurrency miners on compromised systems and potentially facilitating the theft of Discord tokens
A threat actor dubbed "RED-LILI" has been linked to an ongoing large-scale supply chain attack campaign targeting the NPM package repository by publishing nearly 800 malicious modules