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.
Activity dubbed ‘Raspberry Robin’ uses Microsoft Standard Installer and other legitimate processes to communicate with threat actors and execute nefarious commands.
The China-based threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been observed refining and retooling its tactics and malware to strike entities located in Asia, the European Union, Russia, and the U.S
The same attack that allowed a threat actor to steal data from private Heroku GitHub repositories also resulted in the compromise of customer credentials, the company now says.
A new malware framework known as NetDooka has been discovered being distributed through the PrivateLoader pay-per-install (PPI) malware distribution service, allowing threat actors full access to an infected device. [...]
A state-sponsored threat actor designed a house-of-cards style infection chain to exfiltrate massive troves of highly sensitive data.
A growing number of threat actors are using the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war as a lure in various phishing and malware campaigns, even as critical infrastructure entities continue to be heavily targeted
Phishing emails increasingly target verified Twitter accounts with emails designed to steal their account credentials, as shown by numerous ongoing campaigns conducted by threat actors. [...]
A newly discovered suspected espionage threat actor has been targeting employees focusing on mergers and acquisitions as well as large corporate transactions to facilitate bulk email collection from victim environments
A Russian state-sponsored threat actor has been observed targeting diplomatic and government entities as part of a series of phishing campaigns commencing on January 17, 2022