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Very recently another custom malicious implant that seems to be related to APT34 (aka OilRig) has been uploaded to a major malware analysis platform. Since 2014, year in which FireEye spotted out this hacking group, APT34 is well-known to conduct cyber operations primarily in the Middle East, mainly targeting financial, government, energy, chemical and telecommunications sector. In this case, the threat group probably compromised a Microsoft Exchange account of a sensitive entity related to Lebanese government, and used the mail server as command-and-control of the implant. All the traffic between the compromised machine and the C2 is conveyed through legit email messages, making the implant identification harder. The victim seems […]
