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Researchers Link Multi-Year Mass Credential Theft Campaign to Chinese Hackers

17

Aug

2022

A Chinese state-sponsored threat activity group named RedAlpha has been attributed to a multi-year mass credential theft campaign aimed at global humanitarian, think tank, and government organizations. “In this activity, RedAlpha very likely sought to gain access to email accounts and other online communications of targeted individuals and organizations,” Recorded Future disclosed in a new […]

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State-Backed Hackers Using Ransomware as a Decoy for Cyber Espionage Attacks

24

Jun

2022

A China-based advanced persistent threat (APT) group is possibly deploying short-lived ransomware families as a decoy to cover up the true operational and tactical objectives behind its campaigns. The activity cluster, attributed to a hacking group dubbed Bronze Starlight by Secureworks, involves the deployment of post-intrusion ransomware such as LockFile, Atom Silo, Rook, Night Sky, […]

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Stealthy APT group plunders very specific corporate email accounts

04

May

2022

An eminently sophisticated and stealthy APT group is going after specific corporate email accounts and has, on occasion, managed to remain undetected in victim environments for at least 18 months. Catalogued as UNC3524 by Mandiant, the threat actor is also extremely adept at re-gaining access to a victim environment when booted out, “re-compromising the environment […]

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