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Untangling KNOTWEED: European private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits

MSTIC and MSRC disclose technical details of a private-sector offensive actor (PSOA) tracked as KNOTWEED using multiple Windows and Adobe 0-day exploits, including one for the recently patched CVE-2022-22047, in limited and targeted attacks against European and Central American customers.
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NICKEL targeting government organizations across Latin America and Europe

China-based threat actor NICKEL has been targeting governments, diplomatic entities, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) across Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe. Today, Microsoft announced the successful seizure of a set of NICKEL-operated websites and disruption of ongoing attacks.
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Join us at InfoSec Jupyterthon 2021

We’re excited to invite our community of infosec analysts and engineers to the second annual InfoSec Jupyterthon taking place on December 2-3, 2021. This is an online event organized by Open Threat Research Forge together with Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC).
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Evolving trends in Iranian threat actor activity – MSTIC presentation at CyberWarCon 2021

Over the past year, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed a gradual evolution of the tools, techniques, and procedures employed by malicious network operators based in Iran. This blog summarizes our analysis of trends in Iranian nation state actor activity and demonstrates MSTIC’s ongoing efforts to track these actors and protect customers from the related threats.
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