Cisco Talos Blog

March 21, 2024 09:08

New details on TinyTurla’s post-compromise activity reveal full kill chain

We now have new information on the entire kill chain this actor uses, including the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) utilized to steal valuable information from their victims and propagate through their infected enterprises.

February 22, 2024 08:00

TinyTurla-NG in-depth tooling and command and control analysis

Cisco Talos, in cooperation with CERT.NGO, has discovered new malicious components used by the Turla APT. New findings from Talos illustrate the inner workings of the command and control (C2) scripts deployed on the compromised WordPress servers utilized in the compromise we previously disclosed.

February 15, 2024 08:00

TinyTurla Next Generation - Turla APT spies on Polish NGOs

This new backdoor we’re calling “TinyTurla-NG” (TTNG) is similar to Turla’s previously disclosed implant, TinyTurla, in coding style and functionality implementation.

December 21, 2023 11:00

Intellexa and Cytrox: From fixer-upper to Intel Agency-grade spyware

Talos revealed that rebooting an iOS or Android device may not remove the Predator spyware produced by Intellexa. Intellexa knows if their customers intend to perform surveillance operations on foreign soil.

December 11, 2023 08:50

Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus targets organizations worldwide using novel Telegram-based malware written in DLang

Our latest findings indicate a definitive shift in the tactics of the North Korean APT group Lazarus Group.

October 25, 2023 08:01

Kazakhstan-associated YoroTrooper disguises origin of attacks as Azerbaijan

Cisco Talos assesses with high confidence that YoroTrooper, an espionage-focused threat actor first active in June 2022, likely consists of individuals from Kazakhstan based on their use of Kazakh currency and fluency in Kazakh and Russian.

September 19, 2023 08:00

New ShroudedSnooper actor targets telecommunications firms in the Middle East with novel Implants

Cisco Talos has discovered a new intrusion set we're calling "ShroudedSnooper" consisting of two new implants "HTTPSnoop" and "PipeSnoop" targeting telecommunications firms in the middle-east.

August 24, 2023 08:04

Lazarus Group's infrastructure reuse leads to discovery of new malware

Lazarus Group appears to be changing its tactics, increasingly relying on open-source tools and frameworks in the initial access phase of their attacks, as opposed to strictly employing them in the post-compromise phase.

August 24, 2023 08:02

Lazarus Group exploits ManageEngine vulnerability to deploy QuiteRAT

This is the third documented campaign attributed to this actor in less than a year, with the actor reusing the same infrastructure throughout these operations.