Straight from the sunny UK to the stage of SAS-at-Home 2021, John Southworth (PwC) will be giving some insights about the threat actor APT41, also known as Red Kelpie and Winnti. Starting with APT10 (Red Apollo), the presentation will dance you through the malware used by APT41 – the Motnug loader and its descendant, the ChaCha loader, to some thoughts on the actor’s attribution and the payload, including the infamous CobaltStrike.
Experts from NTT Security (Japan) will cover a new APT named Operation Software Concepts. They will share details about this multi-stage attack campaign targeting government and defense sector.
While investigating a recent rise of attacks against Exchange servers, we noticed a recurring cluster of activity that appeared in several distinct compromised networks. With a long-standing operation, high profile victims, advanced toolset and no affinity to a known threat actor, we decided to dub the cluster GhostEmperor.
We discovered a campaign delivering the Tomiris backdoor that shows a number of similarities with the Sunshuttle malware distributed by DarkHalo APT and target overlaps with Kazuar.
This is our latest summary of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity, focusing on significant events that we observed during Q2 2021: attacks against Microsoft Exchange servers, APT29 and APT31 activities, targeting campaigns, etc.
