Invitation to a Secret Event: Uncovering Earth Yako’s Campaigns
We detail the intrusion set Earth Yako, attributed to the campaign Operation RestyLink or EneLink. This analysis was presented in full at the JSAC 2023 in January 2023. Read More HERE…
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Enigma Stealer Targets Cryptocurrency Industry with Fake Jobs
We discovered an active campaign targeting Eastern Europeans in the cryptocurrency industry using fake job lures. Read More HERE…
Earth Zhulong: Familiar Patterns Target Vietnam
In 2022, we discovered Earth Zhulong, a hacking group that has been targeting Vietnam’s telecom, technology, and media sectors similar to another well-known threat actor. In this article, we unravel their new tactics, techniques and procedures that they apply on their misdeeds. Read More HERE…
Earth Zhulong: Familiar Patterns Target Southeast Asian Firms
In 2022, we discovered Earth Zhulong, a hacking group that has been targeting Asian firms similar to another well-known threat actor. In this article, we unravel their new tactics, techniques and procedures that they apply on their misdeeds. Read More HERE…
New APT34 Malware Targets The Middle East
We analyze an infection campaign targeting organizations in the Middle East for cyberespionage in December 2022 using a new backdoor malware. The campaign abuses legitimate but compromised email accounts to send stolen data to external mail accounts controlled by the attackers. Read More HERE…
What SOCs Need to Know About Water Dybbuk, A BEC Actor Using Open-Source Toolkits
We analyze a BEC campaign targeting large companies around the world that was leveraging open-source tools to stay under the radar. Read More HERE…
New Mimic Ransomware Abuses Everything APIs for its Encryption Process
Trend Micro researchers discovered a new ransomware that abuses the APIs of a legitimate tool called Everything, a Windows filename search engine developed by Voidtools that offers quick searching and real-time updates for minimal resource usage. Read More HERE…
Attacking The Supply Chain: Developer
In this proof of concept, we look into one of several attack vectors that can be abused to attack the supply chain: targeting the developer. With a focus on the local integrated developer environment (IDE), this proof considers the execution of malicious build scripts via injecting commands when the project or build is incorrectly “trusted”. Read More HERE…
Vice Society Ransomware Group Targets Manufacturing Companies
In this blog entry, we’d like to highlight our findings on Vice Society, which includes an end-to-end infection diagram that we were able to create using Trend Micro internal telemetry. Read More HERE…
Earth Bogle: Campaigns Target the Middle East with Geopolitical Lures
We discovered an active campaign ongoing since at least mid-2022 which uses Middle Eastern geopolitical-themed lures to distribute NjRAT (also known as Bladabindi) to infect victims across the Middle East and North Africa. Read More HERE…