Cyberespionage Group Earth Hundun’s Continuous Refinement of Waterbear and Deuterbear
Our blog entry provides an in-depth analysis of Earth Hundun’s Waterbear and Deuterbear malware. Read More HERE…
Trend Micro Research : APT&Targeted Attacks
How Red Team Exercises Increases Your Cyber Health
Delve into the world of red team exercises, their vital role in enhancing organizational security through simulated cyberattacks, including tactics like phishing and lateral movement within networks, and understand the need for regular testing and improvement to counter evolving threats effectively. Read More HERE…
Earth Freybug Uses UNAPIMON for Unhooking Critical APIs
This article provides an in-depth look into two techniques used by Earth Freybug actors: dynamic-link library (DLL) hijacking and application programming interface (API) unhooking to prevent child processes from being monitored via a new malware we’ve discovered and dubbed UNAPIMON. Read More HERE…
Earth Krahang Exploits Intergovernmental Trust to Launch Cross-Government Attacks
Since early 2022, we have been monitoring an APT campaign that targets several government entities worldwide, with a strong focus in Southeast Asia, but also seen targeting Europe, America, and Africa. Read More HERE…
Unveiling Earth Kapre aka RedCurl’s Cyberespionage Tactics With Trend Micro MDR, Threat Intelligence
This blog entry will examine Trend Micro MDR team’s investigation that successfully uncovered the intrusion sets employed by Earth Kapre in a recent incident, as well as how the team leveraged threat intelligence to attribute the extracted evidence to the cyberespionage threat group. Read More HERE…
Threat Actor Groups, Including Black Basta, are Exploiting Recent ScreenConnect Vulnerabilities
This blog entry gives a detailed analysis of these recent ScreenConnect vulnerabilities. We also discuss our discovery of threat actor groups, including Black Basta and Bl00dy Ransomware gangs, that are actively exploiting CVE-2024-1708 and CVE-2024-1709 based on our telemetry. Read More HERE…
Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections
During our monitoring of Earth Lusca, we noticed a new campaign that used Chinese-Taiwanese relations as a social engineering lure to infect selected targets. Read More HERE…
Earth Preta Campaign Uses DOPLUGS to Target Asia
In this blog entry, we focus on Earth Preta’s campaign that employed a variant of the DOPLUGS malware to target Asian countries. Read More HERE…
Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets
Based on our estimates, from approximately April 2022 until November 2023, Pawn Storm attempted to launch NTLMv2 hash relay attacks through different methods, with huge peaks in the number of targets and variations in the government departments that it targeted. Read More HERE…
Void Rabisu Targets Female Political Leaders with New Slimmed-Down ROMCOM Variant
Almost a year after Void Rabisu shifted its targeting from opportunistic ransomware attacks with an emphasis on cyberespionage, the threat actor is still developing its main malware, the ROMCOM backdoor. Read More HERE…