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Microsoft Threat Intelligence has discovered a cluster of worldwide cloud abuse activity conducted by a threat actor we track as Void Blizzard, who we assess with high confidence is Russia-affiliated and has been active since at least April 2024. Void Blizzard’s cyberespionage operations tend to be highly targeted at specific organizations of interest to Russia, including in government, defense, transportation, media, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and healthcare sectors primarily in Europe and North America.
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Microsoft Secure

November 30, 2020 TH Author

Threat actor leverages coin miner techniques to stay under the radar – here’s how to spot them

BISMUTH, which has been running increasingly complex cyberespionage attacks as early as 2012, deployed Monero coin miners in campaigns from July to August 2020. The group’s use of coin miners was unexpected, but it was consistent with their longtime methods of blending in.
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Threatpost

June 19, 2018 TH Author

Olympic Destroyer Returns to Target Biochemical Labs

The threat actors appear to be in a reconnaissance phase, which could be a prelude to a larger cyber-sabotage attack meant to destroy and paralyze infrastructure. READ MORE HERE…