Transparent Tribe begins targeting education sector in latest campaign
* Cisco Talos has been tracking a new malicious campaign operated by the Transparent Tribe APT group. * This campaign involves the targeting of educational institutions and students in the Indian subcontinent, a deviation from the adversary's typical focus on government ent
Threat Advisory: Critical F5 BIG-IP Vulnerability
Summary A recently disclosed vulnerability in F5 Networks' BIG-IP could allow an unauthenticated attacker to access the BIG-IP system to execute arbitrary system commands, create and delete files, disable services and could lead to additional malicious activity. This vulner
Mustang Panda deploys a new wave of malware targeting Europe
* In February 2022, corresponding roughly with the start of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Cisco Talos began observing the China-based threat actor Mustang Panda conducting phishing campaigns against European entities, including Russian organizations. Some phishing messages co
Transparent Tribe campaign uses new bespoke malware to target Indian government officials
By Asheer Malhotra and Justin Thattil with contributions from Kendall McKay. * Cisco Talos has observed a new Transparent Tribe campaign targeting Indian government and military entities. While the actors are infecting victims with CrimsonRAT, their well-known malware of choi
Threat Advisory: DoubleZero
This post is also available in: Українська (Ukrainian) Overview The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine released an advisory on March 22, 2022 disclosing another wiper dubbed "DoubleZero" targeting Ukrainian enterprises during Russia's invasion of the co
Threat Advisory: CaddyWiper
This post is also available in: 日本語 (Japanese) Українська (Ukrainian) Overview Cybersecurity company ESET disclosed another Ukraine-focused wiper dubbed "CaddyWiper" on March 14. This wiper is relatively smaller than previous wiper attacks we've seen in Ukraine
Iranian linked conglomerate MuddyWater comprised of regionally focused subgroups
* Cisco Talos has observed new cyber attacks targeting Turkey and other Asian countries we believe with high confidence are from groups operating under the MuddyWater umbrella of APT groups. U.S. Cyber Command recently connected MuddyWater to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence
Arid Viper APT targets Palestine with new wave of politically themed phishing attacks, malware
Cisco Talos has observed a new wave of Delphi malware called Micropsia developed and operated by the Arid Viper APT group since 2017. * This campaign targets Palestinian entities and activists using politically themed lures. * The latest iteration of the implant contains multi
Iranian APT MuddyWater targets Turkish users via malicious PDFs, executables
Cisco Talos has observed a new campaign targeting Turkish private organizations alongside governmental institutions. * Talos attributes this campaign with high confidence to MuddyWater — an APT group recently attributed to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS