Chinese Hackers Anticipated Barracuda ESG Patch
Chinese espionage hackers behind an eight-month campaign to hack Barracuda email security appliances intensified their focus on high-priority targets around the time the company moved to fix the zero-day flaw behind the campaign. Within roughly a week of Barracuda’s late-May public disclosures of the zero-day flaw affording Chinese hackers access to its ESG line of…
Russia-Linked Turla APT Sneakily Co-Opts Ancient Andromeda USB Infections
A hacking group — suspected to be the Russia-linked Turla Team — reregistered at least three old domains associated with the decade-old Andromeda malware, allowing the group to distribute its own reconnaissance and surveillance tools to Ukrainian targets. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant stated in a Thursday advisory that Turla Team APT, also known by Mandiant’s designation…
New threat groups and malware families emerging
Mandiant announced the findings of an annual report that provides timely data and insights based on frontline investigations and remediations of high-impact cyber attacks worldwide. The 2022 report––which tracks investigation metrics between October 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021—reveals that while significant progress has been made in threat detection and response, adversaries are still innovating…
FIN7 Morphs into a Broader, More Dangerous Cybercrime Group
New research shows the notorious cybercrime group FIN7 to be behind numerous clusters of previously unattributed threat activity spanning several years and targeting organizations in multiple regions and industries. The study by Mandiant shows that the threat actor has shifted from mostly targeting the retail and hospitality sectors to aiming at organizations across a considerably…
Mandiant Snaps Up Attack Surface Management Startup Intrigue
According to FireEye, Intrigue’s technology will be integrated into the Mandiant Advantage platform, and help customers discover, monitor, and manage risk across their attack surface. “By coupling intelligence on the vulnerabilities that are being exploited by adversaries with visibility across the entire attack surface, Mandiant Advantage with Intrigue’s capabilities advances the ability of today’s overworked…
