{"id":11770,"date":"2018-09-05T11:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/88068636-c79b-4e8e-b875-3e4685e94445"},"modified":"2018-09-05T11:01:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T11:01:20","slug":"new-silence-hacking-group-suspected-of-having-ties-to-cyber-security-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/new-silence-hacking-group-suspected-of-having-ties-to-cyber-security-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"New Silence hacking group suspected of having ties to cyber-security industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet2.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2018\/09\/05\/80e8fc27-3c0b-4eb6-96c8-30e9da8608d1\/f0014cc3b1139cbe752876c39cc5f25a\/silence-group.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"silence-group.jpg\"\/><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Group-IB<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At least one member of a newly uncovered cybercrime hacking group appears to be a former or current employee of a cyber-security company, according to a new report released today.<\/p>\n<p>The report, published by Moscow-based cyber-security firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.group-ib.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Group-IB<\/a>, breaks down the activity of a previously unreported cyber-criminal group named Silence.<\/p>\n<p>According to Group-IB, the group has spent the last three years mounting silent cyber-attacks on financial institutions in Russia and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The group went undetected for years, mainly because of its predisposition for using legitimate apps and tools already found on victims&#8217; computers, in a tactic known as &#8220;living off the land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Silence also created their own tools, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Silence&#8211; a framework for infrastructure attacks;<\/li>\n<li>Atmosphere&#8211;a set of software tools for attacks on ATMs;<\/li>\n<li>Farse&#8211;a tool to obtain passwords from a compromised computer;<\/li>\n<li>Cleaner&#8211;a tool for logs removal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These tools, coupled with the group&#8217;s lay-low tactics helped it go under the radar for far longer than many of its counterparts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/windows-utility-used-by-malware-in-new-information-theft-campaigns\/\">Windows utility used by malware in new information theft campaigns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_ZD_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\">\n<\/section>\n<p>Following a year-long investigation into the group&#8217;s modus operandi, Group-IB says the group has been linked to hacks going as far back as 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The first recorded hack attributed to Silence took place in July 2016. The hack was a failed attempt to withdraw money via the Russian inter-bank transaction system known as AWS CBR (Automated Work Station Client of the Russian Central Bank).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hackers gained access to the system, but the attack wasn&#8217;t successful due to improper preparation of the payment order. The<\/p>\n<p>bank&#8217;s employees suspended the transaction,&#8221; Group-IB explained in its report.<\/p>\n<p>However, the bank&#8217;s remediation efforts weren&#8217;t up to par, and Silence regained access to the same bank&#8217;s network a month later, in August 2016. This time, they took another approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Silence] downloaded software to secretly take screenshots and proceeded to investigate the operator&#8217;s work via video stream. This time, the bank asked Group-IB to respond to the incident. The attack<\/p>\n<p>was stopped. However, the full log of the incident was unrecoverable, because in an attempt to clean the network, the bank&#8217;s IT team deleted the majority of the attacker&#8217;s traces,&#8221; Group-IB said.<\/p>\n<p>But the Silence group didn&#8217;t stop after these initial clumsy hacking attempts. They did manage to hack into a bank and finally steal some money, more than a year later, in October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>According to Group-IB, the group stopped attempting to wire money using the AWS CBR system and switched to targeting the bank&#8217;s ATM control systems, making ATMs spew out cash (known as jackpotting) at desired hours.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say that Silence stole over $100,000 during their first successful cyber-heist. Other hacks following the same pattern were later discovered and traced back to the Silence group in the following months, such as the theft of over $550,000 in February 2018, and another $150,000 in April 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/fin6-returns-to-attack-retailers-in-us-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\">FIN6 returns to attack retailer point of sale systems in US, Europe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The group is nowhere as successful as other criminal groups known to target financial institutions, such as Cobalt, Buhtrap, or MoneyTraper, all linked to multi-million dollar heists.<\/p>\n<p>The reason, according to Group-IB experts, is that Silence is only a two-man operation &#8211;hence, they don&#8217;t have the same vast human resources to throw at their targets as other groups do.<\/p>\n<p>This is the reason why it took them more than a year to develop the Atmosphere malware they used in the 2017 and later ATM money-dispensing attacks.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/new-silence-hacking-group-suspected-of-having-ties-to-cyber-security-industry\/\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"silence-attacks.png\" data-original=\" https:\/\/zdnet1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2018\/09\/05\/2191bf72-fff9-4dd3-b370-9648b9f0a3af\/b6a5b8e99a1748b1029639dc3c594c4b\/silence-attacks.png\"\/><\/span><noscript><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2018\/09\/05\/2191bf72-fff9-4dd3-b370-9648b9f0a3af\/b6a5b8e99a1748b1029639dc3c594c4b\/silence-attacks.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"silence-attacks.png\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caption\">Timeline of Silence attacks and tools<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">Group-IB<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But it was when Group-IB researchers analyzed the group&#8217;s entire malware arsenal that they discovered that despite being a two-man group, Silence was actually pretty good at what it did.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say the group was very efficient at crafting spear-phishing emails. These spear-phishing emails used exploits for the following Windows and Office vulnerabilities CVE-2017-0199, CVE-2017-11882+CVE-2018-0802, CVE-2017-0262, CVE-2017-0263, and CVE-2018-8174.<\/p>\n<p>The exploits implanted the Silence modular malware framework on victim&#8217;s systems. The group would use locally installed tools for reconnaissance and lateral movement, and would only deploy Atmosphere when they knew they infected the proper computer that ran ATM-specific software.<\/p>\n<p>When needed, the group would also manually modify malware developed by other crooks, such as the Kikothac backdoor, the Smoke downloader, or the Undernet DDoS bot.<\/p>\n<p>Group-IB says that these modifications to third-party malware are what led its researchers to reach the conclusion that at least one of the Silence group members used to, or still works, in the cyber-security industry.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/new-silence-hacking-group-suspected-of-having-ties-to-cyber-security-industry\/\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"silence-members.png\" data-original=\" https:\/\/zdnet4.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2018\/09\/05\/5ec76cc8-5182-476d-9393-ed7c58a56245\/53a319716af9e66eac83005e4a3869a8\/silence-members.png\"\/><\/span><noscript><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet4.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2018\/09\/05\/5ec76cc8-5182-476d-9393-ed7c58a56245\/53a319716af9e66eac83005e4a3869a8\/silence-members.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"silence-members.png\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript> <span class=\"credit\">Group-IB<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Group-IB codenamed the Silence group&#8217;s members as The Developer and The Operator. They say the former developed or modified all the group&#8217;s malware, while the latter was the one using them to infect banks and carry out the hacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Developer, in particular, showed advanced knowledge of malware families and reverse engineering skills, but lacked the knowledge to write top-quality code from scratch &#8211;a typical trait of most security researchers, who spend most of their time reverse engineering other people&#8217;s code, rather than writing their own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is obvious that the criminals responsible for these crimes were at some point active in the security community. Either as penetration testers or reverse engineers,&#8221; said Dmitry Volkov, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Threat Intelligence at Group-IB.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The Developer] knows exactly how to develop software, but he does not know how to program properly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/this-malware-disguises-itself-as-bank-security-to-raid-your-account\/\" target=\"_blank\">This malware disguises itself as bank security to raid your account<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As for Silence&#8217;s origin, Group-IB believes the two are based either in Russia or another Russian-speaking country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Group-IB experts concluded that Silence is a group of Russian-speaking hackers, based on their commands language, the location of infrastructure they used, and the geography of their targets (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Poland, and Kazakhstan),&#8221; the Russian cyber-security firm said today in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Furthermore, Silence used Russian words typed on an English keyboard layout for the commands of the employed backdoor. The hackers also used Russian-language web hosting services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Group-IB did not share the names of the hacked banks but only said that &#8220;successful attacks currently have been limited to the CIS and Eastern European countries,&#8221; although the group sent spear-phishing emails to banks all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/new-silence-hacking-group-suspected-of-having-ties-to-cyber-security-industry\/#ftag=RSSbaffb68\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Russian-speaking &#8220;Silence&#8221; group linked to the theft of at least $800,000 from Russian and Eastern European banks and financial institutions.<br \/>\nREAD MORE 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